Bill Text: NY S06276 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the department of corrections and community supervision to provide telephone services to individuals within the custody of the department in correctional facilities at no cost to the individuals or the receiving parties for domestic telephone calls.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S06276 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06276-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6276 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 31, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing telephone service to inmates at no cost The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of section 623 of the correction 2 law, as added by chapter 240 of the laws of 2007, are amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. Telephone services contracts for inmates in state correctional 5 facilities shall be subject to the procurement provisions as set forth 6 in article eleven of the state finance law [provided, however, that when7determining the best value of such telephone service, the lowest possi-8ble cost to the telephone user shall be emphasized]. 9 2. The department shall [make available either a "prepaid" or "collect10call" system, or a combination thereof, for telephone service. Under the11"prepaid" system, funds may be deposited into an account in order to pay12for station-to-station calls, provided that nothing in this subdivision13shall require the department to provide or administer a prepaid system.14Under a "collect call" system, call recipients are billed for the cost15of an accepted telephone call initiated by an inmate. Under such16"collect call" system, the provider of inmate telephone service, as an17additional means of payment, must permit the recipient of inmate calls18to establish an account with such provider in order to deposit funds to19pay for such collect calls in advance] provide telephone services to 20 individuals within the custody of the department in correctional facili- 21 ties at no cost to the individuals or the receiving parties for domestic 22 telephone calls. 23 3. The department shall not accept or receive revenue [in excess of24its reasonable operating cost] for establishing and administering such EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11453-01-9S. 6276 2 1 telephone system services as provided in subdivisions one and two of 2 this section. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2020 and shall apply to any 4 new or renewal contract for inmate telephone services entered into on or 5 after such date and provided further that any new or renewal contract 6 for inmate telephone services entered into prior to April 1, 2020 shall 7 not run past March 31, 2020.